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Step into the forge, where history, myth, and imagination are hammered into story. The Bard’s Forge is a show that blends the strange and the historical, the legendary and the true, with a sharp edge of wit. Each episode brings a tale pulled from the past — saints and sin-eaters, witches and warriors, floods and follies — and tempers it against modern echoes. Created and hosted by J E DOUBLE F, The Bard’s Forge is gothic, gripping, and never afraid to show how the sparks of old fires still burn today.

This is the true story about the almost unbelievable life of the woman we know as Eleanor of Aquitaine. In her 80 years, she inherited one of the greatest fortunes of Western Europe, married two kings who would fight each other throughout their lives for her wealth, gave birth to two other monarchs, went on Crusade, led a war, spent fifteen years in prison, crossed the alps on horseback in her seventies, raised a king's ransom, and ruled her own lands longer than any other woman except Queen Elizabeth II. This podcast is adapted from the book, Lions' Forge, written by Karen Markle Knab; look ...

Shining city on a hill. Political polarization. American exceptionalism. A nation divided. Come explore with Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge how the first principles of freedom can help American citizens recognize that what they share in common is stronger than what divides them.George Washington managed to unite a new nation after the Revolutionary War. He was so popular, his travels throughout this young republic are still memorialized by brass plaques that read “George Washington Slept Here.”Join Freedoms Foundation CEO David Harmer and staff as they talk with thinkers, writers, and...